Good News, a Secret Manual Has Appeared

After obtaining the "Chance Card," Feng Xue didn't encounter anything decent. He casually collected some cards with Elements, planning to bind them later to see if he could create a skill book.

He wasn't worried about the Elements for the skill book. After all, the Assassin Set that accompanied him through the transmigration, aside from the clothes, the right-hand wrist blade, and a leather bag, the rest remained in his hands. These garments all possessed the [Assassin] Element. As long as he combined them with some terms related to skills, it shouldn't be difficult to assemble a skill book. The only question was whether the Phantom created this way would have the power to be learned instantly.

Seeing that there was nothing left to scavenge around, Feng Xue stepped over the corpses being dismantled by the Garbage Dump, carrying a bag of cards, and headed towards the exit.

Feng Xue came out a bit late this time, and the few exits of the Garbage Dump were already crowded. Feng Xue protected his backpack and queued for over half an hour before finally reaching an appraisal window. Without thinking, he poured out everything in his bag.

The Appraiser glanced at the items on the table, gave Feng Xue a look as if he were an idiot, and then said expressionlessly:

"Estimated at 2600 Tower. Give him six bricks, the rest is mine (we buy gems at a premium, so I get two-tenths)."

"Why so little?" Feng Xue secretly rejoiced, but on the surface, he asked with feigned disbelief, "It's fine if the cards are worthless, but I also have a diamond and an engine here! This is a D Wheel engine!"

"I know it's a gem, that's 2500 Tower for the gem. This engine... tsk, sell it or don't!" The Appraiser rolled his eyes. The young man beside him was kind-hearted and explained further:

"Your engine has no external interface and cannot be externally recharged. We can still power other engines using [Knowledge], but this one, frankly, isn't even worth selling as scrap. That 100 Tower is the price for these hundred or so cards; after all, you can still write something on them..."

"I don't believe it!" Feng Xue grinned. "I'm not selling it, but I can take it back, right? Hmm, I don't want the gem."

"Sure, of course!" The Appraiser said indifferently. He had seen plenty of people like this and couldn't be bothered to argue. The young man beside him spoke in a formulaic manner: "Gem premium purchase, 500 Tower. The remaining cards and the engine have a total value of 100 Tower. Purchase requires payment of 150 Tower. You'll get 350 Tower back, is that okay?"

After speaking, the young man didn't wait for Feng Xue's reply. He took three bricks and a 50 Tower coin and placed them on the table, gesturing for Feng Xue to take them.

"I'm clearly making a profit, so why do I feel so bad?" Feng Xue grinned, re-shouldered his backpack, and left the Garbage Dump. The Elements he obtained this time weren't many, but they were all high-quality. He couldn't wait to turn them into Phantoms!

Even though he was eager, Feng Xue didn't go straight home after leaving the Garbage Dump. Instead, he went to the commercial district to buy some small items like needles and thread. After all, he didn't have a stapler, and binding a stack of cards into something that could be considered a "book" required some tools.

"Done!" Two hours later, Feng Xue looked at the palm-sized "booklet" in front of him and finally breathed a sigh of relief. There was a certain difference between card paper and book paper. Binding them into a booklet was much more troublesome than Feng Xue had imagined. Even using the method of traditional Chinese bookbinding, where holes are punched and then tied, making something that could be classified as a book was a hassle.

After ruining several attempts, Feng Xue finally managed to create something that vaguely resembled a book. Although this item still appeared as a pile of Garbled Code in his Golden Finger's vision, at least it was now recognized as a whole by the Golden Finger.

And being a whole meant it could be reforged.

Taking a deep breath, Feng Xue entered the reforging page. Unlike when he first transmigrated, his Golden Finger now stored quite a few Elements.

However, considering he wanted to create a Phantom Secret Manual, the first priority wasn't immediate success but minimizing junk terms.

Based on previous experience, reforging would definitely embed the selected terms into the item. However, depending on the amount of [Knowledge] invested, the item would gain a few more terms or the original terms would change.

Therefore, Feng Xue's method was multiple small attempts.

"I have the [Assassin] Tag. The [Assassin] term should be the most suitable... Since it's a Secret Manual, this [Learning] term obtained from the blackboard should work. Next, I need to consider the type. I want a type that can be used in actual combat... Adding the [Combat] Tag should be correct. Hmm, and add [Agility] to expand the advantage..."

Feng Xue didn't expect to succeed in one try, so he mostly chose Elements that were in relatively high supply. As time passed, the originally chaotic Garbled Code in the small booklet began to form a systematic set of terms.

The moment Feng Xue added the fourth Element, a phenomenon finally occurred.

Within this booklet bound from cards, the disordered Garbled Code began to twist, deform, and conflict with each other. Although Feng Xue had only input a small amount of [Knowledge] this time, several terms appeared consecutively.

Feng Xue watched the constantly changing terms, his heart pounding. He saw one term that seemed to be [Illustration], and as another was forming, the entire book changed. From the crude card paper, it transformed into a book with a classical feel, bound in thread. And the last term seemed to be...

[Incomplete]?

"Damn it! Don't give me any more trouble!"

Feng Xue looked at the big word "Incomplete" and could hardly bear to open his eyes. However, this book had already become a Phantom, and there was nothing he could do about it. He took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and then looked at this thin, thread-bound book--

Name: Phantom · Butian Ge Secret Manual

Elements: [Assassin], [Learning], [Combat], [Agility], [Illustration], [Profound], [Secret Manual], [Incomplete]

Description: Sentences contain pictures, and imagery is revealed in words, whether abundant or concise, without loss or excess. It is a wondrous cultivation method that depicts the celestial phenomena of the heavens in text, engraving them in the spiritual platform, thereby clearing the mind and calming the heart, allowing the form to become formless, as if strolling in the ninth heaven. (Book Information: ○×××××)

Remarks: Reading a book? Write one yourself...

Looking at this book, Feng Xue felt completely dejected. What was this?

Good news: A Secret Manual was created.

Bad news: It's an incomplete version!